This is pretty straightforward. The GUI for ZSNES is my all time favorite GUI for anything ever. I could possibly be obsessed with it.

I'm curious if anyone else feels this way or if anybody has found ZSNES themes for other things. I wish the GUI existed thematically on Retropie or other apps I use regularly. I even recently spotted it in the credits of Terminal Montage (YouTube) videos.

Mon May 28, 2018 6:30 pm

kode54

Zealot

Joined: Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:31 amPosts: 1140

Re: The ZSNES GUI

Two things I know off-hand, that you may find when searching this forum, or not, depending on how well the search works:

1) Prior to becoming Higan, BSNES had an April Fools version called BZSNES, which had a fork of its Qt UI designed to mimic ZSNES, and also had some of its emulation accuracy turned off, allegedly. Dead in the water, one-off joke that went nowhere fast, and was never maintained, as far as I know.

2) There is a ZSNES-based RetroArch front-end somewhere on this forum, that lets you basically have almost complete control of the ZSNES UI and input binding system and such, only running any RetroArch core you think will work with it. Primarily designed to run the Snes9x or Higan cores, since those will produce the correct video resolution to match the UI. Dunno if this thing is still working, or actively developed. Maybe it's still live somewhere?

Tue May 29, 2018 10:38 am

Gil_Hamilton

Buzzkill Gil

Joined: Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:14 pmPosts: 4231

Re: The ZSNES GUI

kode54 wrote:

1) Prior to becoming Higan, BSNES had an April Fools version called BZSNES, which had a fork of its Qt UI designed to mimic ZSNES, and also had some of its emulation accuracy turned off, allegedly. Dead in the water, one-off joke that went nowhere fast, and was never maintained, as far as I know.

As I recall, the one and only emulation change was disabling the VRAM-write-outside-VBlank check. And you're right, it saw the single release and was never touched again.

It also wasn't a particularly GOOD imitation of the ZSNES interface, to my eternal dismay.

_________________

Squall_Leonhart wrote:

Quote:

You have your 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 32s, 64s, and 128s(crash course in binary counting!). But no 1s.

2) There is a ZSNES-based RetroArch front-end somewhere on this forum, that lets you basically have almost complete control of the ZSNES UI and input binding system and such, only running any RetroArch core you think will work with it.

Thanks for the reply. Would love to try and get this onto my Raspberry Pi, but searching these threads via "retroarch" verbiage is no good so far. Any idea when you bumped into that so that I can narrow my search?

Thu May 31, 2018 4:52 am

kode54

Zealot

Joined: Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:31 amPosts: 1140

Re: The ZSNES GUI

Nope, looks like you get bupkiss for a ZSNESW frontend, because I didn't bookmark it, and I can't find it. I can only find myself mentioning it last year. Maybe it was really a false memory?

Two things I know off-hand, that you may find when searching this forum, or not, depending on how well the search works:

1) Prior to becoming Higan, BSNES had an April Fools version called BZSNES, which had a fork of its Qt UI designed to mimic ZSNES, and also had some of its emulation accuracy turned off, allegedly. Dead in the water, one-off joke that went nowhere fast, and was never maintained, as far as I know.

2) There is a ZSNES-based RetroArch front-end somewhere on this forum, that lets you basically have almost complete control of the ZSNES UI and input binding system and such, only running any RetroArch core you think will work with it. Primarily designed to run the Snes9x or Higan cores, since those will produce the correct video resolution to match the UI. Dunno if this thing is still working, or actively developed. Maybe it's still live somewhere?